Topics

A Hollywood Hills West residence owned by Arianne de Kwiatkowski, daughter of late business magnate and former Calumet Farm owner Henryk de Kwiatkowski, is listed for sale at $2.995 million. Built in the 1930s, the two-story traditional sits back from the street among a blanket of mature trees and privacy hedges. The 2,000 square feet of living space features a great room with beamed ceilings and a stone fireplace that opens to a large entertainer’s patio through bi-folding doors. An updated kitchen, a breakfast area, two bedrooms and 2.25 bathrooms are among the other living spaces. Outdoors, a one-bedroom guest house sits adjacent to a pool. A terrace gardens, a running...

Related "Kentucky Derby" Articles

A Hollywood Hills West residence owned by Arianne de Kwiatkowski, daughter of late business magnate and former Calumet Farm owner Henryk de Kwiatkowski, is listed for sale at $2.995 million.
Built in the 1930s, the two-story traditional sits back from...

Racing fans came to Santa Anita on Saturday expecting the best.
It was, after all, the 75th anniversary of Seabiscuit's immortalized victory in the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap. It also was a day with three graded stakes races serving as lead-ins to the...

All eyes will be on Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith and Shared Belief on Saturday when they team up for what could be a historic day in the $1-million Santa Anita Handicap.
Never before in the 78-year history of the track has a jockey won the...

If horse racing is to creep back into the national psyche of sports fans, it will need days like Saturday at Santa Anita.
The 21,522 who showed up didn't just get the Shared Belief-California Chrome heavyweight title fight. They got a look at a horse...

Many years ago, long enough that neither men can remember exactly when, a young horse trainer and a rider lived in the same apartment building in San Mateo.
The two worked out of nearby Bay Meadows Racetrack and sparked a casual friendship. Both had come...

All too many people spend their New Year's Day with a headache and a hangover. Alex Solis spent his collecting a horse racing milestone.
Not many people outside of racing aficionados paid much attention to Solis' return to the elite Southern California...

Hold off the Kentucky Derby fever for Acceptance, a 3-year-old colt who had won all three of his races by impressive margins before Saturday's $250,000 California Cup Derby at Santa Anita.
Acceptance was sent off as the 1-2 favorite in the 1 1/16-mile...

It was the fourth quarter. Navy was beating Army, 21-7, on a grim early December day in Philadelphia.
"You're going to do what?" announcer Lindsey Nelson asked between commercials of the college football game.
What CBS director Tony Verna...

California Chrome was honored as the Eclipse Awards’ horse of the year Saturday night at Hallandale Beach, Fla.
The winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness last year picked up two Eclipse Awards at Gulfstream Park on Saturday night, including...

Dortmund won the $500,000 Los Alamitos Futurity by a head in a photo finish Saturday, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his record seventh victory in the Grade 1 race at Los Alamitos.
Ridden by Martin Garcia, Dortmund ran 1 1/16 miles in a...

Since he was 15 years old, trainer Ron Ellis said he has always known where he'd be spending the day after Christmas — opening day at Santa Anita.
"It's been an X on the calendar," the 54-year-old said.
In 1980, before a crowd of 66,599, Ellis...

There are just six horses entered Saturday in the $300,000 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar, but the presence of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner California Chrome means the horse racing world will be watching closely.
Trainer Art Sherman is taking a...

California Chrome made it a rare November to remember in horse racing Saturday. It takes a real star to do that.
Running on a surface on which he had never raced before, at a made-for-summer seaside track that never before ran a race this late in the...

For the third straight year, Santa Anita will be home base for horse racing's annual cash call, also known as the Breeders' Cup.
This year's event, Friday and Saturday, will distribute $24.5 million over 13 races, four on Friday and nine on Saturday....

The morning line favorites in the two main races, Friday's $2-million Distaff and Saturday's $5-million Classic, appeared to draw favorable post positions Monday at Santa Anita, site of the third consecutive Breeders' Cup.
Trainer Steve Asmussen's...

Trainer Bob Baffert scratched one of his best hopes for a Breeders' Cup title Tuesday, when American Pharoah was found to have a deep bruise in his left front hoof.
American Pharoah was the 2-1 morning line favorite in the $2-million Juvenile, a race...

Hats seem to be as much a part of major horse racing meets as thoroughbreds, jockeys, trophies and flower garlands.
So it's not too surprising that in May 2013, hatmaker Christine A. Moore was named the first ever official milliner for the Breeders' Cup....

The scenarios for success in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, a $5-million race at Santa Anita that will create legacies and define history, are as complicated as a Rubik's Cube.
Fourteen horses will start. Thirteen will lose. Millions will be wagered....

As Texas Red, bought for a bargain $17,000 at a Keeneland yearling sale in 2013, circled the field Saturday and went from last to first in the $2-million Breeders' Cup Juvenile, its connections from Texas and Louisiana didn't take long to start dreaming...

In a Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Saturday that was more pinball machine than horse race, at least six significant things happened.
•Bayern won, giving his owner, Kaleem Shah, 60% of the richest thoroughbred purse of the year, $5 million.
...